"I saw you once admiring them on someone," he had told her.

And to think that she had once admired her.

And he cannot understand the way the education system in Britain, once admired across the world, has been allowed to rot.

The new king was wary of Lang, whom he had once admired.

New York City's public university system was once widely admired.

Everything he did, in fact, seemed a hideous parody of the things she had once admired about him.

"A lawyer I admire once told me a defense counsel has to keep his objectivity."

David was becoming increasingly disenchanted with Treat, a man he had once admired.

If they ask you about Margaret, look sad and say how much you once admired her.

Some who once admired him worry that he is cultivating a cult-like following.